Clothes hanger



Aug. 11, 1953 swn: H0O TAN CLOTHES HANGER 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Dec. 1,1950 INVENTOR.

Aug. 11, 1953 Filed Dec. 1, 1950 SWIE H0O TAN 2,648,468

CLOTHES HANGER 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. SW/E H00 TAM /4 in/fr PatentedAug. 11, 1953 UNITED STATES rarsu'r OFFICE CLOTHES HANGER Swie H00 Tan,The Hague, Netherlands Application December 1, 1950, Serial No. 198,529in the Netherlands September 23, 1950 7 (Jlaims.

The invention relates to a clothes-hanger, in particular for ladies and.childrens clothes for instance gowns, dressing gowns, blouses and thelike.

lhe term clothes-hanger is used in this specification in the sense thatthe hanger supports garments rather than that the hanger is itselfsupported by a hook and except where the context requires otherwise isintended to include clothes-hangers supported by a stand from the floorand stands on which garments are hung for display purposes.

On the existing clothes-hangers for these garments, the clothes hangpractically in a vertical plane. In big readymade-c1othes shops, forinstance, they hang in a row in a long rack or in a long wardrobe.

In that case the clothes hang close upon one another. If a hanger with agown. is taken from the row, and shown to the public, no proper view ofthe dress is obtained, because the bust curve and narrowing at the waistare absent. Consequently this way of showing a dress lacks a great dealof attraction and naturalness.

The purpose of the invention is to provide an improvement.

According to the invention the clothes-hanger is characterized by afigure of substantially convex-concave shape, the lower end of whichlies in or approximately in the plane of the shoulder portion of thehanger and is adapted for so holding the garment that displays the shapeof a waist, which shape, if desired, may be adjusted to various sizes.

Hereby the advantage is obtained that a dress which is being shown hasan attractive and natural appearance.

By constructing the concave side of the convexconcave figure accordingto the invention congruent or substantially congruent to the convexside, the bust portion of a garment, hung on an adjacent correspondinghanger which hangs on a level with the preceding hanger can beaccommodated in the cavity formed by the concave side of the first-namedconvex-concave figure.

By this feature practically the same number of dresses can be hung in arack or in a wardrobe of the same dimensions as when using the existinghangers, because owing to the fact that the bust portions of the dressesfit in one another no space is wasted only the first dress of a row willtake more space than the first dress of a row of dresses hung on theusual hangers owning to the curving of the convex-concave figure of."-the hanger. Th fi larger space, however, plays a very 2 minor part whenone has a row of for instance 80-100 dresses.

If desired, th lower end of the convex-concave figure adapted to holdthe garment gathered at the waist may be provided with adjusting membersto adjust the figure to various waist sizes.

In a practical embodiment of a clothes-hanger according to the inventionthe convex-concave figure may consist of a striplike member forming awhole or united to form a whole; portions of which, curved in bust-shapeproject from the plane of the hanger and are connected at the lower endby a connecting strip, in or substantially in the plane of the hanger,which strip is provided with a slit in longitudinal direction, at theextremities of which slit two hooks having their open sides turnedtowards one another, are provided.

In another practical embodiment of a clotheshanger according to theinvention the convexconcave figure may consist of a relatively stifiwire member, portions of which, curved in bustshape, are bent out of theplane of the hanger, at the lower end of said member, in or about in theplane of the hanger, in opposite directions; horizontal or substantia1lyhorizontal portions being formed, which extend past on another andwhich, if desired, may be attached to one another, the extremities ofsaid portions passing into hooks, the open side of which are turnedtowards one another.

It is also clearly possible to apply, instead of a single figure, forinstance two congruent figure components, each constituting half of thesingle figure; this and similar variations fall within the scope of theinvention.

The invention is elucidated by the drawing which shows two embodiments.

Figure 1 is a front view of a clothes-hanger according to the inventionwith a dress hung thereon;

Figure 2 shows this clothes-hanger with dress in side view, togetherwith a second hanger without a dress suspended on the same rod at somedistance from the first; in reality the distance between the two hangersis smaller and the bust portions of two dresses will fully fit into oneanother; only for clearness sake some distance has been kept in thedrawing;

Figure 3 shows a detail of construction illustrating the adjustabilityof the waist portion of the clothes-hanger according to the Figures 1and 2;

Figure 4 is a front view and Figure 5 is a side view of a secondembodiment of a clothes-hanger according to the invention.

Of a clothes-hanger according to the Figures 1-3 the shoulder portion Iwith hook 2 is provided in the centre with two holes, through which arepassed the legs of a web 3 of a wire figure, resting against the hanger,the centre of which wire figure is U-shaped, said legs being then firstbent at the side of the hanger which lies at the back in Figure 1 andthen running downwards in a diverging oblique direction and then bentforwards from the vertical plane of the hanger, afterwards to extenddownwards and backwards in a converging oblique direction as far as thevertical plane of the hanger at the waistline.

The diverging parts 4 and 5 with the converging parts 6 and I give abust-like curve to the bust portion 8 of a dress 9 suspended on theshoulder portion of the hanger. In the plane of the hanger the lowerends of the converging portions 6 and I are bent in opposite directionsto form horizontal portions I and II which extend past one another andat the extremities pass into hooks I2 and I3, turned with their opensides towards one another, between which hooks the waist of a dress canbe gathered. In the drawing for claritys sake these hooks have beenshown as being slightly inclined in the horizontal plane.

In reality, generally when the hanger is suspended the portions I 0 andII will lie horizontal although this is not necessary.

From Figure 1 it appears clearly how a dress which is hung on a commonhanger in no special shape is now gathered at the waist in a naturalmanner.

From Figure 2 it appears how the bust portions of dresses suspended on arow of hangers carried by a mutual suspending rod can fit in one anotherand therefore lie close to one another in the same way as this happpenswhen said dresses are suspended flat on the usual hangers. It can beseen how the dress shows a natural bust curve and therefore projectswith regard to the waist-line.

The lower end of the convex-concave figure destined for holding thewaist of a garment may be constructed so as to be open (for instance asin the embodiment according to Figures 1, 2, 4 and for introducing thedress waist, or closed (for instance cushion-shaped) for arranging thewaist thereon, for instance, with pins although the latter embodiment isof course less desirable. According to Figure 3 only the lower portionof the convex-concave figure has been shown.

It is provided-as in the figure according to Figures 1 and 2with hooksI2 and I3 turned with their open sides towards one another. These hooksare, however, constructed in this case as separate members, which havetheir straight portions l4 and I5 respectively telescopically arrangedin tubular portions I1 and I6, said tubular portions being provided atthe lower ends of the converging portions 6 and I. The hooks can herebybe adjusted to various positions which may be fixed by means of clampingscrews. The hooks may be shifted further towards one another in aposition in which the waist is closed; by I8 a sleeve is indicated bymeans of which it is possible to obtain a closed waist also when thehooks are adjusted to a wider waist measure.

In the described embodiment a common wooden hanger has been used, onwhich the convex-concave wire figure has been suspended. As appears fromthe Figures 4 and 5 it is also possible to manufacture theconvex-concave figure as constituting a whole with the shoulder portion,for instance by moulding, pressing or stamping out of a suitablematerial, such as synthetic resin, plate metal etc.

The clothes-hanger constructed as a stripshaped member also shows ashoulder portion I, provided with a suspending hook 2 the lower edge ofwhich shoulder portion passes in the centre into a connecting strip l9,extending backwards and downwards in oblique direction with regard tothe plane of the drawing, said connecting portion dividing and passinginto the bust-shaped curved portions 4-6 and 5--I. The lower ends of theportions 6 and I are united by a connecting strip 20, which is providedwith a longitudinal slit 2 I, on the extremities of which the hooks I2and I3, having their open sides turned towards one another, areprovided.

The clothes-hanger according to this second embodiment has the advantagethat it may be manufactured in a simple manner by stamping out of platemetal or moulding or pressing out of a synthetic substance. It is alsopossible to stack a number of these clothes-hangers, which is anadvantage when shipping them.

I claim:

1. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion adapted to be received insidea garment and to support the garment by its shoulders, bust-shapingportions extending rearwardly from a central portion of said shoulderportion, then divergently downwardly and forwardly and then convergentlydownwardly and rearwardly, and a waist-gripping portion supported at thelower portion of said bust-shaping portions, the bustshaping portionsbeing adapted to lie outside of and behind the garment and to pressportions of the garment forwardly to shape the bust portion thereof andthe waist-gripping portion being adapted to received the waist portionof the garment and gather it in.

2. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion adapted to be received insidea garment and to support the garment by its shoulders, means forsuspending said shoulder portion, bust-shaping portions extendingupwardly and rearwardly from a central portion of said shoulder portion,then divergently downwardly and forwardly and then convergentlydownwardly and rearwardly, and a waist-receiving portion supported bythe lower portion of said bust-shaping portions, the bust-shapingportions being adapted to lie outside of and behind the garment andpress portions of the garment forwardly to shape the bust portionthereof and the waist-receiving portion comprising portions to receiveand contract the waist portion of the garment.

3. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion adapted to be received insidea garment and to support the garment by its shoulders, bust-shapingportions extending downwardly from a central portion of said shoulderportion and a waistreceiving portion carried by the lower portion ofsaid bust-shaping portions, said waist-receiving portion comprising hookportions adapted to receive and contract the waist portion of thegarment and said bust-shaping portions lying outside of and behind agarment supported on said shoulder portion and comprising portions thatproject forwardly from a plane connecting said shoulder portion andwaist portion so as to press both the back and front of the garmentforwardly and shape the bust portion thereof.

1. A garment hanger according to claim 3, in

which the hook portions of said waist portions are adjustable toward andaway from one another.

5. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion comprising a central portionand lateral portions extending divergently downwardly from said centralportion, bust-shaping portions extending rearwardly from said centralportion then downwardly and forwardly and then downwardly andrearwardly, and a waist portion supported by the lower portion of saidbust-shaping portions, said bust-shaping portions lying outside of andbehind a garment supported by the hanger and pressing the bust portionof the garment forwardly to shape it and said waist portion comprisingmeans for receiving the waist of the garment and holding it rearwardlyof the forwardly extending part of said bust portions.

6. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion adapted to be received insidea garment and to support the garment by its shoulders, bust portionsextending rearwardly from a central portion of said shoulder portion,then downwardly and forwardly and then downwardly and rearwardly, awaist portion carried by the lower portion of said bust portion, saidshoulder portion, bust portions and waist portion being integral 6 andmeans on said waist portion for receiving and contracting the waistportion of the garment. said bust portions lying outside of and behindthe garment and pressing the bust portion of the garment forwardly of aplane through the shoulder and waist portions.

7. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion comprising a central portionand lateral portions projecting laterally and downwardly from saidcentral portion, bust portions extending downwardly from said centralportion and comprising portions extending divergently downwardly andforwardly and then convergently downwardly and rearwardly and a waistportion supported by the lower portions of said bust portions andconnecting the lower ends of said converging portions.

TAN, SWIE H0O.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS NumberName Date 1,741,750 Wordingham Dec. 31, 1929 2,303,585 Shafarman Dec. 1,1942 2,536,187 Kosky et a1 Jan. 2, 1951

